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by Christopher DeMuth The Hudson Institute Sept. 19, 2017 The Constitution of 1787 begins with its stirring “We the People of the United States” preamble, then turns to Article I, establishing a national Congress. The article takes up more than half the entire document. Article II, establishing the Executive, and Article III, establishing the Judiciary, […]

It sure looks that way, based on recent history, and now a female has entered the race for the GOP nomination for SoS to be determined next year. Mary Treder Lang, a certified public accountant from Grosse Pointe Farms, announced Tuesday that she’ll seek the Republican nod on a platform of “Security, Optimization and Stability,” […]

THE MIDDLE CLASS ROCKS — AGAIN! By Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group September 18, 2017 The middle class is back — or so it seems. That’s the message from the Census Bureau’s latest report on “Income and Poverty in the United States.” The news is mostly good. The income of the median household (the one exactly in […]

COMMENTARY Peter Berkowitz Sept. 15, 2017 American colleges and universities should be bastions of self-knowledge and self-criticism, simply because they exist to teach people how to think. But in recent years America’s campuses seem to have abandoned this tradition. Worse, the meager course offerings on the topic of liberal education tend to reinforce misunderstandings about […]

by Leonard N. Fleming, The Detroit News/Associated Press Sept. 15, 2017 The researcher who helped confirm the Flint water crisis said Friday the city’s quality of water is testing at federally acceptable levels but residents still distrust the once-contaminated water supply. Researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering led by professor Marc Edwards showed […]

Former U.S. Army Secretary calls Trump’s military transgender ban ‘unprecedented’ Eric Fanning, who served as U.S. Secretary of the Army under President Barack Obama, speaks to attendees Thursday, Sept. 14 at a speaking event in East Lansing featuring Fanning and Elissa Slotkin, Democratic Congressional candidate for the 8th District. (Lauren Gibbons | MLive.com) By Lauren Gibbons […]

by UVA Center for Politics Sept. 14, 2017 Some Americans express troubling racial attitudes even as a majority oppose white supremacists, according to a new poll published by Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics in conjunction with Reuters/Ipsos. The survey found that while there is little national endorsement of neo-Nazis […]